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When someone thinks, I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.
Max Barry
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Max Barry
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 18
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People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
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When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
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I will not be what I was made, but what I make.
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